This working group will meet in person every three weeks for the 2022-2023 academic year to discuss new scholarship about Eurasian borderlands. Faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates are welcome to join. No prior expertise in Eurasia is necessary.

Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, al levels welcome!

In the fourth installment of the Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, a full-graphic novel about Japanese individuals in relocation centers after President Roosevelt's 1942 order. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.

GILS is a reading group for K-16 educators to literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. This year’s theme is Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text. See registration for more information!

Join the French Club for Spring 2023's weekly conversation hours, on both Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5-6:30 pm!

Please join us for the film screening of What We Left Unfinished, directed by Mariam Ghani, as a part of the CMU International Film Festival.

This award-winning documentary showcases five unfinished films from Afghanistan’s communist era; the screening will be followed by a Q&A session with director Mariam Ghani, moderated by the Global Studies Center's PiNTS Scholar and Visiting Research Faculty in Afghan Cinema and Theatre Habib Sorosh. The featured director is an Afghan-American woman who is a writer, artist, and filmmaker, focusing on spaces in which social, cultural, and political structures and forces engage and take on visible configurations.

This screening is presented by the Center for the Arts in Society, the School of Art, the Kim and Eric Giler Humanities Lecture Fund, the Dietrich College Humanities Scholars Program, the Humanities Center, and CMU International Film Festival.

Join the Persian Club for bi-weekly conversations on Thursdays at 8-9 pm during Spring 2023!